It’s so interesting to me how in Project Hail Mary, Grace is shown to be a coward before we actually know it.
This is all during the first part of the movie, in the spaceship. He runs from the robot when waking up, he runs from blip-a when it appears. When the message first gets sent over to the Hail Mary, he cowers and asks for shields, and even right before he goes to get the message with an EVA, he changes his mind and tries to bail, only going out because he gets pulled out accidentally.
They are all understandable actions, but not necessarily brave ones. The first time he’s shown to truly act brave is when he takes off his helmet in the tunnel, after rocky asked him to.
We don’t see it because we are under the impression that he is brave, that he chose to go on the mission and save humanity, but looking at the story chronologically, that’s not the case.
The movie was showing us the whole time that grace became brave for rocky, it just took until the end to say out loud.
